Secondshiftnews

Jumping in to the middle of everything

[Secondshiftnews @Secondshiftnews]

My opinions may occasionally offend you, but the rest of the time im just trying to compile the facts on the topics that interest me and matter. You may not like those either and disagree with them, but you can fuck off about that.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: The CIA officer caught with $40 million in gold bars allegedly invented an entire fake top-secret spy program to steal the money.

As if this story couldn't get and wilder:

-David Rush allegedly built a sham "special access program," the blackest box in U.S. intelligence, so secret even top-clearance officials couldn't look inside without authorization

-The fake program posed as "continuity of government" work, the doomsday planning that keeps Washington running after a nuclear war

-He allegedly read in two colleagues as unwitting accomplices and used a made-up government contract to funnel millions, persuading a defense contractor to buy huge amounts of gold

-The FBI raid on his home seized 303 gold bars worth roughly $40 million, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches

-Investigators say he lied about his college degrees, faked being a Navy pilot, and still sailed through the CIA's notoriously brutal vetting

-A judge ordered him held as a flight risk, and several CIA officials are now on leave as the probe widens

The scheme worked because of the system, not in spite of it.

The secrecy walls built to hide operations from China and Russia hid the fraud from the CIA itself.

A man with a fake résumé ran a fake doomsday program inside the most paranoid institution in America, and for years nobody noticed...

Source: Washington Post

[Secondshiftnews @Secondshiftnews]

@BrettKollmann Well now it was the tail end of the little ice age during that period, summers were a smidge cooler degree wise but definitely not as humid. That 85 was quite pleasant in the late 1700s.

[Secondshiftnews @Secondshiftnews]

We can only hope

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Russian military sources are predicting a collapse of the Russian frontline in Autumn due to chronic fuel shortages and a logistical nightmare created by Ukrainian drone strikes.

[Secondshiftnews @Secondshiftnews]

@HLC_actual Make a conscious effort to turn your wrists out during your down swing, rotate your elbows in and your wrists will open up.

Im not a golfer, just enjoy it a bit, and a had a tendency to smack the ball right off the tee for awhile

[Secondshiftnews @Secondshiftnews]

@HLC_actual @AlexHollings52 Well then the f-47 is gay and i cant wait till it starts appearing in your videos. Better bust out that dirty bottom san fran accent for him

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Armenian authorities have arrested 6 members of the Pro Russian opposition party just a day before general elections in light of recent military threats from the Kremlin.

That is not going to down well...

[Preston Stewart @prestonstew_]

"if Ukrainian formations continue to strike ships and infrastructure of the Baltic Fleet, putting it in conditions similar to the Black Sea Fleet, then Russian cargo vessels will be defenseless on the Baltic. And the fleet, having retreated to the safest harbor, will attempt to protect at least itself from drones."
-Russian media Rybar

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is reporting a “serious incident” that resulted in injuries to several Russian military personnel, which occurred during today’s de-mining phase of the agreed localized ceasefire near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in Southeastern Ukraine.

[Secondshiftnews @Secondshiftnews]

@TouchlineX Nonsense, they insisted most vigorously that they knew heat and our A/Cs were luxuriously unnecessary

[Preston Stewart @prestonstew_]

Due to Ukrainian drone strikes, the city of Kronstadt is closed and an evacuation has been issued for the area west of Saint Petersburg, south of the island.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Ukrainian attack drones successfully hit Russia's Antipinsky Oil Refinery overnight, setting it ablaze.

Seen here, the refinery continues to burn.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Russian authorities have been forced to close the crucial Novorossiya supply route which runs from Crimea to Western Russian territory along the Black Sea due to heavy Ukrainian logistical strikes from drones.

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

Kuwait says new Iran attack is a ‘flagrant violation’ - Statement

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

If the Iran War resumes and the U.S. naval blockade on Iranian ports is not lifted, Mohsen Rezaei, military adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, states that Iran will “drag the war to the Indian Ocean, the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.” Rezaei adds that Iran will also attack other American bases across the Middle East. “America will definitely suffer much more losses. America's losses will be very heavy.”

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

According to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), Iran launched a total of seven ballistic missiles against Bahrain and Kuwait earlier in retaliation for the shoot down of four one-way attack drones today over the Strait of Hormuz and U.S. strikes against Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island. Six of the missiles launched by Iran were intercepted while the seventh did not reach its intended target, causing no casualties among U.S. servicemembers and no damage to the U.S. 5th Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Informed sources have told me Ukraine severely damaged several Russian key Baltic naval installations in todays massive attack on St Petersburg Russia causing Russian command to start a rapid relocation of air defences from Moscow area to the North of the country.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Ukrainian forces carried out a widespread drone attack on Russia this morning, scoring a number of successful hits.

Dozens of drones swarmed St. Petersburg, striking Baltic Fleet installations, the port of Mariupol was hit, and a major oil depot in Ust-Labinsk was set ablaze.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

So far tonight

2124Z: US forces announce the seizure of the tanker Davina as part of the Iran blockade
2200-2220Z: Explosions reported in the Strait of Hormuz/Qeshm
2348Z: CENTCOM confirms Iranian forces fired drones into the Strait, US forces conducted airstrikes in response

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Surface-to-air missiles launch from “Patriot” Batteries and intercept Iranian ballistic missiles over Bahrain.

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

A second case of New World Screwworm has been detected in a one-month-old calf in Zavala County, Texas, approximately 5-6 miles from the first case, according to the USDA.